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‘Other services you can buy in are interior designers, who will help you ‘design ‘a decor using colour swatches and mood charts.’’

‘Throughout the preceding weeks, McDonald and Moore have given us color boards of fabric swatches, surface materials, and paint chips to help us reach final decisions on furniture and paint colors.’

‘I was both a cool and deep dude, but predominantly cool - and a swatch book of 33 of these qualifying hues was ‘my colour.’’

‘She measures them up and they look through a style portfolio and swatch book.’

‘Complete with details of colours, fabrics, fashion silhouettes and other trends that will be seen in the coming season, the book analyses the trends through colour swatches, material swatches and coloured sketches.’

‘I come with my swatch books and some drawing paper.’

‘Most retailers can get you a sample swatch or will allow you to check out the book for an evening.’

‘As a further incentive, include a swatch of material (in gold, red, or tweed, for example) from which to base individual outfits.’

1.2A sample of paint, makeup, etc. applied to a surface or one's skin to test or demonstrate the color.

‘red lipstick swatches’

‘the walls were covered with multicoloured paint swatches’

‘The swatches you’re seeing here are the second attempt at swatching these lipliners on the lips.’

‘I created this blog so I could upload more in-depth pictures and swatches of any products I am talking about.’

‘I’m not an expert at lippie swatches but I tried and hopefully they help a little tiny bit.’

‘There probably isn't a soul in the world (who is interested in makeup, that is) that hasn't already seen a million swatches of the Urban Decay Book of Shadows.’

‘With these larger samples, you'll have more paint available to create larger paint swatches.’

‘I'm about to go and get swatches of duck egg blue paint for the bedroom.’

‘This trio of eyeshadows from Illamasqua’s latest collection landed on my desk this week and I thought I’d post up some swatches.’

‘In the picture above you can see the swatches of each color.’

‘Of the shades I tried, Rose Boudoir and Rose Thé are the most opaque, which you can hopefully see in the swatches above.’

‘I hope the swatches are helpful to those considering this palette.’

‘I don't know why the cheek colour swatches are so sheer, because the blush actually has plenty of pigment.’

‘I thought that maybe a couple of swatches could be useful, especially for those of you who are going to shop online without seeing the actual products first.’

‘As you can see from the swatches, it almost seems like you’re buying three tubes of the same gloss.’

‘If you're looking for reviews, beauty, swatches, and more, whether it's haircare, skincare or makeup...you've come to the right place!’

1.3A patch or area of a material or surface.

‘the sunset had filled the sky with swatches of deep orange’

‘Prior to the debut, the Newfoundland author is grafting bits of his skin onto swatches of paper for a limited number of promotional covers.’